I want an ambiguous, trippy, The Thing-like telling of a bad week among astronomers set at the Alma Observatory.

Yeah, this show had way too many loose ends and empty hints for something that was practically a miniseries. If it's part of the theme, fine— make the ending as vague as the rest of it so the inconsistency is…consistent.

FLAT MENSTRUAL CYCLE

Smash-cut to tomorrow's Vulture article on True Detective and the Ontological Phenomena of Menstruation

Yeah, if you work at drinking long and hard enough eventually you'll build up a pretty impressive tolerance/dependence.

I've long suspected that the creators of this show don't really know what to make of women. My suspicions were confirmed when they cut to Hart carrying enough goddamn pads and tampons to clean up after an elephant birth.